So, I’ve decided that I want to reinstall Arch on my laptop, but this time separate /home from root, and encrypt it using LUKS.

I made a backup of my current, unencrypted home directory (I didn’t separate them initially) using:

sudo rsync -aXS --exclude='/*/.gvfs' /home/. /mnt/home/.

Once I wipe Arch and reinstall it, encrypting /home, would I be able to transfer my unencrypted files to the encrypted /home partition, and have them become encrypted?

  • partizan@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    You dont need to wipe anything, just shrink the filesystem from a live system.

    Then create a new partition, which you encrypt and mount…